School for Love

7 best books like School for Love (Olivia Manning): A Month in the Country, When I Arrived at the Castle, The Intuitionist, The Hired Man, It Never Happened Again: Two Stories, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction, Sex Fantasy

AuthorJ.L. Carr
ISBN0940322471
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside...
When I Arrived at the Castle
AuthorEmily Carroll
"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood."

Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering...
The Intuitionist
AuthorColson Whitehead
ISBN0385493002
A New York Times Notable Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
Two warring factions in the Department of Elevator Inspectors in a bustling metropolis vie for dominance: the Empiricists, who go by the book and rigorously check every structural and mechanical detail, and the Intuitionists,...
AuthorAminatta Forna
ISBN1408817667
The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders.

Aminatta Forna has established herself as one of our most perceptive and uncompromising...
AuthorSam Alden
ISBN0988901463
Two exquisite stories drawn in Sam Alden's signature, flowing, and lush pencil style. In “Hawaii 1997,” few words are spoken, but Aldens imagery evokes the magic of a night-time encounter at a Hawaiian resort. In “Anime” he explores the complicated dynamics of pop culture obsession. Sam...
Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
AuthorChuck Klosterman
ISBN0735217920
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?

A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs...
Sex Fantasy
AuthorSophia Foster-Dimino
ISBN1927668468
Sorry, it's more about intimacy than it is about actual sex, though it is about attraction and a very few sexual acts. It's mainly, I think, about cartooning, actually, and what comics/cartoons can convey. Based on her zines on this topic.

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